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Today: Sunday, April 19, 2009 Divine Mercy SundayOutside My Window: sunny! The kids are making snowmen with the wet heavy snow we got yesterday.Today’s Goal: make bread and soup for dinner.Today’s Plan: Dark laundry, REALLY finish putting away all clothes from our trip.Today’s Tea: English Breakfast. This is a classic black tea.Today’s Tidbits: We are starting in FlyLady’s Zone 4 (Master Bedroom & Bath). I stripped the bed to wash the sheets, and I am decluttering the trash that I have accumulated by my desk.

Today: Saturday, April18, 2009Outside My Window: BLIZZARD! it has been snowing all night and all day. We’ll see how much is actually on the ground when the wind stops!Today’s Goal: Get everything from our trip unpacked and put away; sort laundry.Today’s Plan: Make menus for next week and a shopping list.Today’s Tea: Mexican Winter – it is so warming with its pepper berries.Today’s Tidbits: Today is the last day we are in FlyLady’s Zone 3 (Main Bathroom plus One Other Room). Since we cleaned the bath room before we left on our trip, it is in good shape. The back room is also in good shape, so maybe just a once over on the counters and vacuuming the floor is in order.

Today: Tuesday, April 7, 2009Outside My Window: sunny!Today’s Goal: Get everything packed into the van for our trip.Today’s Plan: Pack the dry goods into the kids’ lunch boxes, make sandwich packs to put into the cooler in the morning, finish the last load of laundry, and clean up the kitchen.Today’s Tea: 8 Treasures Green Tea.Today’s Tidbits: We are in FlyLady’s Zone 2 (Kitchen). The kids are helping me by putting clean dishes away and sweeping while I finish up the dirty dishes, clear and wipe the counters, and mop the floor.

Today: Wednesday, April 1, 2009Outside My Window: cold and snowy. More to come tonight!Today’s Goal: Exercise and drink more water.Today’s Plan: Order extra Irish Dance socks for the girls.Today’s Tea: How about a pot of After 7 Rooibos? Yummy chocolate & mint flavors! We are sipping it this afternoon after all school is done, while watching a movie from the library.Today’s Tidbits: We are in FlyLady’s Zone 1 (Entrnce, Front Porch and Dining Room). The kids are helping me by doing the dusting and cleaning the fronts of the washer and dryer. I wonder if painting them would be a good idea to freshen them up a bit (the washer and dryer, not the kids). Does anyone have any ideas?